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pcmdjason – I did stumble upon richpin06’s videos and I can’t believe he works on so many s series, it’s greatness cause he knows those cars in and out. Unfortunately the problem returned 3 days after I posted that it was fixed. It was the MAF or I should say MAP. It was clogged up and I cleaned it out with sensor cleaner. A side note, the car has/had a bunch of sludge as the seafoam in the oil broke up a bunch of junk and the oil was black when I changed it this last weekend. Some minor transmission issues remain. MPG is great now and I was able to get all my power and swiftness back. The steering is also back to normal.
So, it was mostly the spark plugs. It was the last thing that I hadn’t changed out. They were bad. I think I will post a micro picture of them. Can y’all analyze them? Looks like some corrosion and burnt oil. I had seen a video for E3 spark plugs and being a technical guy, I bought those. Has anyone had a bad experience with those? I also had a bunch of build up in the throttle body and I took it off and clean it all out. The IAC was all gunked up too. I reaplaced the ECT while I was at it. I saw some build up inside when changing out the sparks and added some Seafoam to the fuel and oil. I then ran the spray Seafoam through the intake just a few mins ago. I stil have some transmission issues and can still hear that weird buzz when coming to a stop but I got all my power back. I’m gonna check the resistance of the valve body solenoids, next.
Great to know! That may make more sense. I’m a noob of course but thought the engine temp is not reading correctly the whole time I had this car. The temp only gets up to the quater mark on the dial and seems like it should be at half for running temp. I did also think that the fan was not working as it did used to ramp up in temp when sitting idle. However, I thought I felt the fan kick in when it hit the half temp marker. Where should the temp gauge be for regular running conditions. I thought the ECT was fine seeing I saw it increase but after my trip to Austin for New Years, I found the engine bay extremely hot while the temp gauge still showed quarter to half reading.
I also thought I heard a vacuum leak near the intake. I did spray carb cleaner around the area as I was cleaning the air intake but didn’t hear the engine change idle speed.
http://www.oreillyauto.com/site/c/search.oap?keyword=ect&year=1999&make=Saturn&model=SL&vi=1357275
Is this the sensor needed? It’s cheap… so I’m not sure if this is the right part your speaking of.Thanks again 3SheetsDiesel!
Thanks a ton guys! No check engine lights. Trans fluid was checked while started and it was pink/red and I could see thru it to the dipstick, so that’s good from what I hear. It has 110K+ miles on it. Already changed the air filter, it was clean. Never had a tune up as I just bought it back in October. 4 cyl. It did have some build up in the air intake that I had to clean out with throttle cleaner the other day but it was after the issue started. Curious, does it have an equivalent to a throw out bearing? I know it’s a Saturn, 🙁 lawl That’s why I said I use it to get to and from work. (Ashamed). I used to have an Acura Vigor, miss that ol’ 5 cyl. ho. My transmission guy said he wouldn’t touch it, as Saturns have weird transmission that he hasn’t had luck with. I’m gonna look for a different guy to take a stab at it.
With further testing today, I found that if I don’t accelerate more than 2.5K RPMs then the fuel consumption is not a problem. It’s loosing fuel when trying to accelerate at high rates. I used cruise control. The car actually sounds louder in a sense, a deeper rumble. I was going to replace the spark plugs the other night but ran out of day light. The weird thing is that the two issues were tied together except for today. The steering felt fine on the way home but the car was more sluggish. I did see a weird electrical issue not too long ago. When speeding on the highway, I hit a dip at a pretty good speed and it caused the wipers to do a one stroke like I manually pulled down on it. I thought this was from force/gravity but after kinda checking it out, it seems impossible that it was from the controller switch and it could be an electrical issue.
I’m leaning more towards transmission at this point but it would be a godsend if it’s a sensor or electrical issue. Fingers crossed.